Bad Company
I read this headline and it was a reality moment for me: "U.S. and China criticize climate report." Yup. I guess that's where we are. It's America and Red China, together at last.
We're peas in a pod now. We both torture. We both hold people indefinitely without charge. Who? Well, pretty much anybody who looks crossways at us. We're both in a religious war - us against Islam (exactly what Osama wanted), the Chinese against all religions (I side with them on that one).
Free speech? Only up to a point - agreed. Talk smack on the Leader and see how fast your taxes get audited. Speaking of taxes, both are countries with sharply divided "haves" and "have-nots." Wealthy and politically well-connected elites rule - both countries.
Of course, we're still bush-league at authoritarianism. It's a new toy for us. Cheney has the inclination for it, as does Georgie. They're just terrible fumblers.
What I didn't expect, along with the happy support of the US media, was that they could find so many people to work for their China-like government. Who knew there were so many Americans who were eager to work for a despot?
Take my rights, please!
So here we are again, lining up with China to water down a report on Global Warming. The two great despoilers of the planet look at a report on environmental devastating, and say: "isn't this a bit harsh?"
It was only 2,000 pointy-headed science types who put the report together - how can they expect to know more than all the eminent evangelists advising the Junta? Or the party-approved scientists of China?
Of course, the plan they hash out has to be approved unanimously, so expect all countries to agree that air exists and that the earth is a certain temperature in certain places, and possibly a different temperature in other places.
That's what passes for science in a backward authoritarian tinpot dictatorship.
And in China.
We're peas in a pod now. We both torture. We both hold people indefinitely without charge. Who? Well, pretty much anybody who looks crossways at us. We're both in a religious war - us against Islam (exactly what Osama wanted), the Chinese against all religions (I side with them on that one).
Free speech? Only up to a point - agreed. Talk smack on the Leader and see how fast your taxes get audited. Speaking of taxes, both are countries with sharply divided "haves" and "have-nots." Wealthy and politically well-connected elites rule - both countries.
Of course, we're still bush-league at authoritarianism. It's a new toy for us. Cheney has the inclination for it, as does Georgie. They're just terrible fumblers.
What I didn't expect, along with the happy support of the US media, was that they could find so many people to work for their China-like government. Who knew there were so many Americans who were eager to work for a despot?
Take my rights, please!
So here we are again, lining up with China to water down a report on Global Warming. The two great despoilers of the planet look at a report on environmental devastating, and say: "isn't this a bit harsh?"
It was only 2,000 pointy-headed science types who put the report together - how can they expect to know more than all the eminent evangelists advising the Junta? Or the party-approved scientists of China?
Of course, the plan they hash out has to be approved unanimously, so expect all countries to agree that air exists and that the earth is a certain temperature in certain places, and possibly a different temperature in other places.
That's what passes for science in a backward authoritarian tinpot dictatorship.
And in China.
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